Sonic Cinema 24- Joseph Efi, Bad Colours, and Rival Consoles

Joseph Efi is a UK-based artist who artfully fuses electronic, dubstep, and experimental influences to create an innovative and experimental sound. ‘Walker’ is the latest example of Efi’s soulful creations and is based on the idea of a character whose spirit is traveling between different bodies as a shapeshifter looking for a home. The accompanying video features a fossil-like conglomeration of objects and stones set in a square piece of concrete—an assemblage of items that mirrors the artists’ merging of soundscapes. Around the block floats an amorphous orb that shifts shapes and hunts for a place to land.

Always With U is Bad Colours’ second album, releasing this November. ‘Maybe I Should Move to LA’ is a single from the upcoming album, where the artist merges his songwriting, producing, and djing to produce an upbeat and aspirational sound. The song’s music video features a couple on their way to go surfing on a beach in New York City, juxtaposed against lyrics about a dream of living the beachy LA lifestyle. Bad Colours is a London-born and Brooklyn-based artist whose first album PINK was released in 2021.

Rival Consoles’ latest single ‘Vision of Self’ explores the question of ‘what is the self?’ Understanding transformation, pain, love, relationships, nature, dreams, and more, the music and video are formed around existential questions about who we are, howe we dream, and how music can reflect this ambiguity and questioning in an abstract and symbolic manner. The animated, colorful music video incorporates animals, nature, and objects to depict phases of transformation, imagination, and dreamed-up visions. Rival Consoles is electronic artist Ryan Lee West, and the track features on his latest album Now Is, out now via Erased Tapes.

Sonic Cinema 23- Music videos from Kytes, Popp and Alaskan Tapes

“Hula-Hoop” is the latest collaboration between KYTES and Digitalism, where the artists break the boundaries of genre to deliver an upbeat, indie-electro sound. KYTES is a pop quartet based in Munich, known for its disco melodies and ease of listening. Coming together with Hamburg-based duo Digitalism, the group of artists produces a song that undercuts structures in its free-form approach. The accompanying video features a contemporary dance performance in a park, with figures interacting creatively with hula hoops to produce dynamic visual compositions. The result is a theatrical performance piece where the circular nature of the visual and audio motifs unites the work as a whole.

Simon Popp’s upcoming album Blizz features the single “DLY.” The drummer’s creativity and dynamic beat-making come to life in this track as he plays his percussion set through a delay unit to create an unexpected rhythm that throws the listener off balance and makes a unified composition all at once. Popp uses a variety of metal objects to produce this industrial-sounding piece with a post-apocalyptic feel. The song’s official video shows the artist making music with tables full of instruments, allowing listeners to witness his ultimate artistry in awe.

“Library Fields” is a single from Alaskan Tapes’ upcoming album and features a layered piano experiment. As an experienced pianist, Toronto-based Brady Kendall has expressed the limitations and restrictions of the piano, especially when working with digital tools available online. As a result, his exploration into the art of layering piano loops in a way that mirrors guitar work has allowed him to create a more dynamic rhythm to express a broader range of ideas, emotions, and effortless innovations. The track that results is melodic, tranq